GHOST LIGHT

THE DOCTOR BRINGS ACE TO GABRIEL CHASE, Perivale, in 1883. The house is occupied by Josiah Samuel Smith, who keeps the domestic staff in a comatose state behind the walls and a creature locked up in the cellar.

Also in the house are Redvers Fenn-Cooper, a famous explorer who has lost his mind, and Ernest Matthews, a clergyman who has travelled from Oxford to challenge Smith over his “blasphemous” Darwinian theories.

Ace discovers that this is the same house that, 100 years later, she will burn to the ground in a fit of rage and terror. She flees to the cellar – actually the control room of a spaceship – where two insect-like creatures in formal evening dress bear down on her, but manages to escape with the help of Nimrod, Josiah’s Neanderthal butler.

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